Casket-handle



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, CASKET HANDLE. APPLICATION FILED APR- 22. I918- 1,312,171 Patented Aug. 5, 1919.

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GASKET-HANDLE.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatiI, JOHN P. FOLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Galesburg, in the county of Knox any. preferred general structure, my um and State of Illinois, and useful Casket-Handle, lowing is a specification.

My present invention relates to caskethandles of that general type or class disclosed in United States Letters Patent No. 1,202,987, granted to me October 31, 1916, on which the device herein shown and described is an improvement.

The principal object of the invention is to provide certain improvements in the interengaging portions of the escutcheon-plate and the hanger-arms, whereby a much stronger and more rigid handle is produced.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation, showing the escutcheon-plate, one of the connecting or hanger-arms in position and the other omitted, and a fragment of the handle-bar;

Fig. 2, a perspective of one end portion of one of the hanger-arms;

Fig. 3, a section, partly in elevation, its plane taken in the line 3--3 in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 1, a detail section, taken in the plane of the line 4--il in Fig. 1.

Considering the drawings in detail, 2 designates an escutcheon-plate, preferably formed from sheet metal, the one shown be ing of a well known general outline. It is provided with openings 3 into each of which project gudgeons 6, faced toward each other and acting as fulcrums on which the hanger-arms are hinged. At the upper edge of each opening 3 is a bearing tongue 7 concavo-convex in cross section. In these tongues reside one of the main features of my improvements, namely: The escutcheon plates are made of relatively thin sheet metal. A great amount of weight has to be resisted by each tongue. It is impractical, owing to the nature of the article and the demand that it be ornamental and pleasing to the eye, to make the tongues of any considerable size. The problem, then, was to strengthen the tongue (which in itself is not new) without increasing its size, and I discovered that by giving it the arciform shape shown best in Figs. 1 and 4 that this object would be obtained. In order to add still greater strength I continue or extend the fullness or arc-shape into the body of have invented a new of which the fol- Speeification of Letters Patent.

the plate, as shown best at 8, Figs. 1 and 4:, where it tapers off to a point. i

The hanger arms 4 also are formed of relatively thin. sheet metal and may be of provement therein residing in providing the inner ends of each thereof with a channel 9 termlnating in a shoulder 10. 11, 11 desig nate registering openings in which the gudgeons 6 are fulcrumed. 12 designates the usual handle-bar.

t Fig. 3 shows the device in operative positlon, as in carrying a casket, the hangerarms 4 fulcruming on the gudgeons 6 and the terminals of the tongues 7 bearing on the shoulders 10. (It is to be observed that in moving the hanger-arms upward or downward the tongues will move in the channels 9 and that, therefore, the plating or other finishing will not be marred.) Because of the hereinabove described novel structural peculiarities of the tongues 7 and their extensions 8 a very much greater weight will 'be resisted thereby, without their yielding or giving way, than is the case in any former device now known to me. The shoulder 10 being formed without s1itting or otherwise cutting the metal, of course ofiers sufiicient resistance against any weight which may be placed upon it.

I realize that some variation is possible in the details of. this construction without departing from the spirit of the invention; therefore I do not intend to limit myself to the specific form herein shown and described except as pointed out in the following claims, in which it is my intention to claim as broadly as is permitted by the state of the art all the novelty inherent in the invention.

Having thus described the nature of the invention I claim as new:

1. In a device of the class described, an escutcheon-plate having a hanger arm receiving aperture, the wall of the plate im mediately above the central vertical portion of said aperture being formed outwardly to provide a weight resisting tongue, said tongue extending down into the aperture and rounded on its lower edge, and a hanger arm hinged to said plate, and provided with a channel on its inner upper end conforming to the shape of said tongue whereby adjustment of said handle causes said handle to guide on said tongue and Patented Aug. 5, 1919.

Application filed April 22, 1918. Serial No. 230,034.

said hanger arm having a shoulder at the end of said channel to form an abutment for contact with said tongue When said handle is in an elevatedposition.

2. In a device of the class described, an escutcheon-plate having a hanger arm receiving aperture, a tongue formed integrally r with said plate projecting outwardly therefrom and downwardly over said aperture and formed in a concavo-convex shape both laterally and longitudinally, a hanger arm pivotally associated with said escutcheon Gopies of this patent may be obtained for said tongue five cents eaoh, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

JOHN P. FOLEY.

Commissioner of Patents, 

